Our Complete Career Training Programs (CCTP) include both the training you need and the skills you will want in order to be prepared for your new career. We have taken online career programs to a whole new level by bundling our Career Training with Personal Enrichment courses to ensure you have a diversified learning experience.

Our mentor-supported career courses focus on the industry standards that prepare you for your chosen career or certification. You will also get our smaller, four-week long, instructor-led personal enrichment courses to further your employment training.

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**Please Note: Office 2013 is available upon request

Human Resources Management

Learn about the exciting world of today's Human Resources Management throughout this online course. This HR management course weaves together solid human resource principles and real word scenarios companies and managers face, such as recruiting, training, developing, managing, compensation, benefits, safety, and work motivation. This course highlights important challenges facing managers and employees in today's business climate. Interesting case studies explore real companies and organizations in-depth and delve into some of today's most effective, unique approaches in dealing with HR issues.

Prerequisite: None

Human Resources Exam Prep (PHR/SPHR)

Our Human Resources Exam Prep course is designed to provide human resource professionals with a fun and engaging opportunity to prepare for the revised Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification exams. The Human Resources Exam Prep course walks you through the process of applying your professional knowledge and skills to the PHR/SPHR exam questions.

Prerequisite(s): Human Resource Management

Leadership & Goal Attainment

Looking for ways to make your company great, motivate your employees, and grow profits? Then Leadership & Goal Attainment is the course for you. In the first part of this course you will learn how relational leadership is not just a theory or a buzzword, but a way of managing through relationship-building to bring out the very best in one's employees. You will see how some executives succeeded where others failed and take advantage of those lessons of success to create your own.

Why do some genius-level leaders seem to drain intelligence and performance out of the people around them, while others stimulate, motivate, and get so much more out of their work associates? The second part of this course uses Liz Wiseman’s book to label the former group, people who need to be the smartest person in the room, as diminishers, while the latter are multipliers, people who use their smarts to stimulate and enhance the creativity of the group. This section of the course identifies what is considered the five most important disciplines that help managers to think and act more like multipliers, bringing people together, and giving others on the team more freedom, power, and responsibility, which ultimately generates self-worth and satisfaction.

The third part of this Leadership & Goal Attainment course will help you with setting and achieving your goals. While it can be difficult to set truly meaningful and motivational goals, it is one of the most essential steps to business success. Even more importantly, setting, working toward and achieving measurable goals is how we all grow personally while contributing to organizational success.

Prerequisite: None

Microsoft® Office (MOS) 2016

If you're looking for a way to get up to speed quickly on the newest version of Microsoft Office, this course offers step-by-step instructions to make it easy. Office 2016 has new features and tools to master, and whether you're upgrading from an earlier version or encountering the Office applications for the first time, you'll appreciate this simplified approach.

This course covers:

Microsoft Word 2016

Microsoft Excel 2016

Microsoft PowerPoint 2016

Microsoft Outlook 2016

Microsoft Access 2016

Microsoft Office holds more than 90 percent of the market for Windows-based productivity suites. Our MS Office 2016 course makes this technology easy to understand, even for those who are new to computers.

NOTE: This course does NOT include the MS Office programs themselves. Students will need to have Office 2016 already installed on their computers.

Better Interpersonal Communication

Interpersonal Communication is a very important skill that is needed to develop and maintain personal and professional relationships. Just because you are talking does not mean you are communicating. This course will take you through the steps involved in understanding the importance of interpersonal communication and the effect on our daily interactions.

* You have 4 weeks to complete this course from date of your enrollment.

** Course Subject to Change.

Human Resource Essentials

Whether you are a newly promoted manager, a business owner or a human resource professional, knowing the ins and outs of dealing with HR issues is critical to your success. Our Human Resource Essentials course is designed to provide an overview of specific human resource functions. Throughout this course, we will explore the road map of human resources through legal issues, recruiting and retaining the best employees to terminating poor performers.

* You have 4 weeks to complete this course from date of your enrollment.

** Course Subject to Change.

Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Emotional intelligence provides a road map for us to know whether we are on the right track in our personal and professional lives. Emotional intelligence is our guide for how we relate to others, and it can determine our success in managing conflict and finding our passion in life and work. This course will provide both an overview of emotional intelligence as well as provide a guide for how to address the issues creating conflict in your personal and professional life and the tools to face those challenges and find success.

* You have 4 weeks to complete this course from date of your enrollment.

** Course Subject to Change.

** Course Subject to Change.

Human Resources Management

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Identify each of the major HRM functions and processes of strategic HRM planning

Recall the principles of recruitment, selection, training and development, compensation and benefits

Better Interpersonal Communication

Because it’s such a commonplace activity, we usually don’t think about how we communicate too much. However, the power of effective, persuasive communication should never be underestimated. Your success in any number of settings—in your relationships, in school, on the job, and as a member of society— hinges on your ability to master the full communication process. Our first module discusses the basics of verbal and nonverbal communication, as well as uses and misuses.

Listening is the learned process of hearing, attending, evaluating, retaining, and responding to verbal and nonverbal messages. In this module we will learn more about each stage of the listening process: review both the benefits to listening, as well as the challenges to effective listening; and explore the ways in which you can improve your listening skills. We’ll also discuss the principles behind self-concepts and self-disclosure.

Do you notice that you act in different ways around certain people? Perhaps you act inhibited around your supervisor, but you wish you could act confident like you do around your co-workers and other colleagues. In other situations, you act polite and deferential around acquaintances, but may wish you could act more sociable like you do around your friends. In this module, we’ll discuss how personality styles effect communication as well as the perception process. Finally, we’ll explore the basics behind defense mechanisms.

Interpersonal conflict occurs in interactions where there are real or perceived incompatible goals, scarce resources, or opposing viewpoints. We’ll discuss types of conflict and conflict styles in our final module, as well as characteristics of electronic communication.

What is Conflict and What Contributes to It?

Types of Conflict

Conflict Styles

What is Electronic Communication?

Characteristics and Misuses of Electronic Communication

Human Resource Essentials

To be able to understand the human resource function, you must first define and understand the strategy and mission statement of your company. In this module, we will learn the importance of understanding where you are going and how the human resource function integrates into this mission. We will also dive into recruiting functions and how they are implemented.

During this module, we will look at why performance evaluations are used and what the benefits are for the employer and employee. We will also dive into the types of benefits that are issued to employees and learn how they are used in the workplace.

In our final module we will discuss what major role technology plays in the workplace and how it is a competitive advantage. We will close out the class with learning about the current changes that affect the workplace today, how to adapt to changes and how this can be crucial in the success or failure of a company.

Technology and Change

Policies in the Workplace

HRIS (Human Resources Information System)

Changes in the Workforce

Organizational Culture

Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

This module will define emotional intelligence and provide an overview of how emotions exist in our brain and link to our behaviors. Emotional intelligence is both about the choices we make as well as how our interactions with others can influence how we feel. Emotions are linked to our thoughts and our actions, all influencing our behaviors and performance in the workplace.

In order to improve on our emotional intelligence, we must first understand the components of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence, unlike our IQ, is not fixed or limited. Our emotional capacity can increase with experience and age. This module will focus on the components of emotional intelligence and how emotional intelligence develops.

Knowing the steps to build emotional intelligence is key to understanding how it functions in the workplace. Being a strong observer of the self and others is the beginning step in a process that ends with reflection. This module will continue where the previous one left off with an in depth discussion of the remaining steps to emotional intelligence in the workplace.

There are many methods of increasing emotional intelligence in the workplace. While there is a lot to be done as an individual, emotional intelligence always involves a relationship with someone else. Building emotional intelligence at work requires both an ability to understand the self and to collaborate with those around you. This module will discuss how to build emotional intelligence in the workplace through empathy, collaboration, social expertise, and knowing your purpose.

Building self-awareness

Empathy in the workplace

Increasing social bonds in the workplace

Reducing conflict, improving collaboration

Knowing Your Purpose

Ed4Career is committed to being both environmentally conscious and making it easier for you to study! We’re making your education mobile! All of our textbooks are now provided as eTextbooks*. You can access them on your laptop, tablet, or mobile device and can study anytime, anywhere.

The move away from physical books to eTextbooks means you get the latest, most up-to-date version available. This also makes your training more accessible, so you can study anywhere you have your phone or tablet. The best part is that all materials are included in your training cost so there are NO extra fees for books!**

*A few courses still have physical materials.

Human Resources Management

Upon successful completion of this Human Resource Management course, students will be prepared to sit for the HRCI certification exam to become an Associate Professional in Human Resources (aPHR).

Human Resources Exam Prep (PHR/SPHR)

Upon successful completion of this Human Resources Exam Prep (PHR/SPHR) course and the required professional HR experience, students will be prepared to sit for the HRCI certification exam to become a Professional in Human Resources (PHR®) or a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR®). The PHR is open to HR professionals with a minimum of 2 years professional experience with a Bachelor's degree or 4 years experience with a high school diploma and the SPHR is available to those with a minimum of 7 years professional experience.
The PHR is open to HR professionals with at least 2 years professional experience and the SPHR is available to those with a minimum of 6 years professional experience.

Ed4Career has been approved as an Accredited Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). In obtaining this accreditation, Ed4Career has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard which is recognized internationally as a standard of good practice. As a result of the Accredited Provider status, Ed4Career is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for courses and programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standard.

The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) was created by IACET as a measurement of continuing education. One (1) IACET CEU is equal to ten (10) contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction. Under IACET's care, the IACET CEU has evolved from a quantitative measure to a hallmark of quality training and instruction. For more information on IACET, visit www.iacet.org.

Internet Connection

Broadband or High-Speed - DSL, Cable, and Wireless Connections

*Dial-Up internet connections will result in a diminished online experience. Classroom pages may load slowly and viewing large audio and video files may not be possible.

Hardware Requirements

Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher

Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended

PC Software Requirements

Operating Systems - Windows 7 or higher

Microsoft Office 2013 or higher. Also, you could use a general Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)

Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended

Cookies MUST be enabled

Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)

The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)